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The voting is wack - it looks like everyone from STL, DET and CLE just voted for their own city. These cities are only going to continue declining into further irrelevancy. Cinci and Milwaukee are cool cities that are hanging on but I don't think so. I like Omaha but it shouldn't be on the list - too small.
Every city and metro on that list is LOSING population except for Minneapolis, Kansas City and Indianapolis which are all growing and thriving.
It sounds like you need to look up the latest census estimates which has Metro Detroit gaining population. And Detroit isn't even close to being irrelevant.
Those stats actually don't show you anything or provide any data about what the national average is. City data shows Minny total crime index approx. twice the national average (and higher than Chicago for the most recent data) but if you choose to ignore the stats then so be it.
Minneapolis reports crimes that many cities wouldn't even bother with. A sexual assault is listed as rape. Violent crime in Minneapolis is far lower then chicago. If other cities listed minor crime the way Minneapolis does their crime rate would look much higher. Minneapolis doesn't have a bad neihhborhood.
Those stats actually don't show you anything or provide any data about what the national average is. City data shows Minny total crime index approx. twice the national average (and higher than Chicago for the most recent data) but if you choose to ignore the stats then so be it.
Minneapolis reports crimes that many cities wouldn't even bother with. A sexual assault is listed as rape. Violent crime in Minneapolis is far lower then chicago. If other cities listed minor crime the way Minneapolis does their crime rate would look much higher. Minneapolis doesn't have a bad neighborhood.
Violent crime rate in Minneapolis has been high for quite some time. It's silly to try to spin it differently.
I'm not trying to spin anything. Police in Chicago have way more to deal with and let small stuff go. In Minneapolis even the lightest offense is blown way out of proportion. Minneapolis is not worse then Chicago. I don't care what the stats say.
I'm not trying to spin anything. Police in Chicago have way more to deal with and let small stuff go. In Minneapolis even the lightest offense is blown way out of proportion. Minneapolis is not worse then Chicago. I don't care what the stats say.
Minneapolis is the only major city in the US to classify all sexual assaults as rape. Because of this Minneapolis has one of the highest rates of rape in the country. This makes it look like it has a higher violent crime rate than it does. Any criminoligist will tell you that the only crime that is a true apples to apples comparison between cities is homicide. Everything else relies on local definitions. Also, the more dangerous cities try to massage their crime rates so they look lower. Cities that are not thought of as dangerous have less reason to do that
Minneapolis is the only major city in the US to classify all sexual assaults as rape. Because of this Minneapolis has one of the highest rates of rape in the country. This makes it look like it has a higher violent crime rate than it does.
"She said she reviewed 50 cases from 2012 and found that 35 of those would have met the FBI’s previous definition of rape. She estimated that reducing each year’s total by 30 percent would provide the number of FBI-defined forcible rapes. Taking the 30 percent reduction into account, Minneapolis would still be among the top five cities in the country for reported rapes over the last several years, an analysis shows."
And even so, the FBI statistics provided in post 134 show that Minneapolis still has a higher robbery rate than Chicago and a nearly equivalent aggravated assault rate.
I just don't understand why it's so hard to admit that Minneapolis--a city that has a documented higher-than-average violent crime rate and a historical problem with homicides--isn't Mayberry.
Never understood Minneapolis, it looks like a sterile boring city to me. When i visited it, it just looked like a modern "pick a name" metropolis without any personality...I would rather live in Detroit, at least it has some character
Last edited by Minnesota Spring; 06-15-2017 at 10:01 PM..
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